Monday, March 1, 2004

Glenn Miller: Top 100 Songs

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Glenn Miller was born on this day in 1904 in Carinda, Iowa. The top 11 songs on this list are also in the DMDB list of the top 1000 songs of all time (see here). According to Joel Whitburn’s Pop Memories 1890-1954, Miller topped the chart 23 times (noted below by #1) and hit the top ten another fifty times. The bio of Miller from that book calls him the “leader of the most universally beloved of all big bands” and notes that Miller played trombone for the Dorsey Brothers, Benny Goodman, Red Nichols, and Ben Pollack before forming his own band in 1939. In September 1942, Miller enlisted in the Army Air Force. His plane was lost over the English channel on 12/15/1944. Here are Miller’s top 100 songs: